RE: Discussion of Xenheap problems on AArch64

[Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>]

> From: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
Hi Julien,

> 
> On 11/05/2021 02:11, Henry Wang wrote:
> > Hi Julien,
> Hi Henry,
> >
> >> From: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
> >> Hi Henry,
> >>
> >> On 07/05/2021 05:06, Henry Wang wrote:
> >>>> From: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
> >>>> On 28/04/2021 10:28, Henry Wang wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> when I continue booting Xen, I got following error log:
> >>>
> >>> (XEN) Xen call trace:
> >>> (XEN)    [<00000000002b5a5c>] alloc_boot_pages+0x94/0x98 (PC)
> >>> (XEN)    [<00000000002ca3bc>] setup_frametable_mappings+0xa4/0x108
> >> (LR)
> >>> (XEN)    [<00000000002ca3bc>] setup_frametable_mappings+0xa4/0x108
> >>> (XEN)    [<00000000002cb988>] start_xen+0x344/0xbcc
> >>> (XEN)    [<00000000002001c0>]
> >> arm64/head.o#primary_switched+0x10/0x30
> >>> (XEN)
> >>> (XEN) ****************************************
> >>> (XEN) Panic on CPU 0:
> >>> (XEN) Xen BUG at page_alloc.c:432
> >>> (XEN) ****************************************
> >>
> >> This is happening without my patch series applied, right? If so, what
> >> happen if you apply it?
> >
> > No, I am afraid this is with your patch series applied, and that is why I
> > am a little bit confused about the error log...
> 
> You are hitting the BUG() at the end of alloc_boot_pages(). This is hit
> because the boot allocator couldn't allocate memory for your request.
> 
> Would you be able to apply the following diff and paste the output here?

Thank you, of course yes, please see below output attached :)

> 
> diff --git a/xen/common/page_alloc.c b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
> index ace6333c18ea..dbb736fdb275 100644
> --- a/xen/common/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
> @@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ void __init init_boot_pages(paddr_t ps, paddr_t pe)
>       if ( pe <= ps )
>           return;
> 
> +    printk("%s: ps %"PRI_paddr" pe %"PRI_paddr"\n", __func__, ps, pe);
                                              ^ FYI: I have to change this 
PRI_paddr to PRIpaddr
                                                 to make compiler happy

> +
>       first_valid_mfn = mfn_min(maddr_to_mfn(ps), first_valid_mfn);
> 
>       bootmem_region_add(ps >> PAGE_SHIFT, pe >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> @@ -395,6 +397,8 @@ mfn_t __init alloc_boot_pages(unsigned long nr_pfns,
> unsigned long pfn_align)
>       unsigned long pg, _e;
>       unsigned int i = nr_bootmem_regions;
> 
> +    printk("%s: nr_pfns %lu pfn_align %lu\n", __func__, nr_pfns,
> pfn_align);
> +
>       BUG_ON(!nr_bootmem_regions);
> 
>       while ( i-- )
> 

I also added some printk to make sure the dtb is parsed correctly, and for the
Error case, I get following log:

(XEN) ----------banks=2--------
(XEN) ----------start=80000000--------
(XEN) ----------size=7F000000--------
(XEN) ----------start=F900000000--------
(XEN) ----------size=80000000--------
(XEN) Checking for initrd in /chosen
(XEN) RAM: 0000000080000000 - 00000000feffffff
(XEN) RAM: 000000f900000000 - 000000f97fffffff
(XEN)
(XEN) MODULE[0]: 0000000084000000 - 00000000841464c8 Xen
(XEN) MODULE[1]: 00000000841464c8 - 0000000084148c9b Device Tree
(XEN) MODULE[2]: 0000000080080000 - 0000000081080000 Kernel
(XEN)  RESVD[0]: 0000000080000000 - 0000000080010000
(XEN)
(XEN) Command line: noreboot dom0_mem=1024M console=dtuart 
dtuart=serial0 bootscrub=0
(XEN) PFN compression on bits 21...22
(XEN) init_boot_pages: ps 0000000080010000 pe 0000000080080000
(XEN) init_boot_pages: ps 0000000081080000 pe 0000000084000000
(XEN) init_boot_pages: ps 0000000084149000 pe 00000000ff000000
(XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 1 pfn_align 1
(XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 1 pfn_align 1
(XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 1 pfn_align 1
(XEN) init_boot_pages: ps 000000f900000000 pe 000000f980000000
(XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 909312 pfn_align 8192
(XEN) Xen BUG at page_alloc.c:436

To compare with the maximum start address (f800000000) of second part mem
where xen boots correctly, I also attached the log for your information:

(XEN) ----------banks=2--------
(XEN) ----------start=80000000--------
(XEN) ----------size=7F000000--------
(XEN) ----------start=F800000000--------
(XEN) ----------size=80000000--------
(XEN) Checking for initrd in /chosen
(XEN) RAM: 0000000080000000 - 00000000feffffff
(XEN) RAM: 000000f800000000 - 000000f87fffffff
(XEN)
(XEN) MODULE[0]: 0000000084000000 - 00000000841464c8 Xen
(XEN) MODULE[1]: 00000000841464c8 - 0000000084148c9b Device Tree
(XEN) MODULE[2]: 0000000080080000 - 0000000081080000 Kernel
(XEN)  RESVD[0]: 0000000080000000 - 0000000080010000
(XEN)
(XEN) Command line: noreboot dom0_mem=1024M console=dtuart
dtuart=serial0 bootscrub=0
(XEN) PFN compression on bits 20...22
(XEN) init_boot_pages: ps 0000000080010000 pe 0000000080080000
(XEN) init_boot_pages: ps 0000000081080000 pe 0000000084000000
(XEN) init_boot_pages: ps 0000000084149000 pe 00000000ff000000
(XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 1 pfn_align 1
(XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 1 pfn_align 1
(XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 1 pfn_align 1
(XEN) init_boot_pages: ps 000000f800000000 pe 000000f880000000
(XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 450560 pfn_align 8192
(XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 1 pfn_align 1
(...A lot of (XEN) alloc_boot_pages: nr_pfns 1 pfn_align 1...)
(XEN) Domain heap initialised
(XEN) Booting using Device Tree

Hope these can help. Thank you.

Kind regards,

Henry

> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Julien Grall